It might be the first ever TV show “inspired by a popular meme”. Ugh.
During the summer of 2020, when we were all half-way towards losing our minds thanks to isolation and loneliness, there was a sudden explosion in the popularity of videos that can only be described as “Cakes that look like other things”.
Here is the best mega-mix of those cakes:
the last days there were a lot of videos circulating of cakes that look like other things until you cut them open, like this: pic.twitter.com/VqQxEvZ4xU
— san 🥟🦦🌸🍉 (@ixildumese) July 13, 2020
Jump forward a year-and-a-bit, and Netflix has commissioned a new show called Is It Cake?, which takes the concept of those videos – which, individually, last as long as a takes a knife to cut into a cake – and turned it into its own show.
Hosted by Mikey Day (best known for his appearances amongst the Saturday Night Live cast), it features a group of talented bakers who bake cakes that ultimately look like things that aren’t cakes, and then a group of celebrity judges come on and – from a distance – are asked which of things in front of them is a cake that doesn’t look like a cake.
That’s it, that’s the show.
Clip via Netflix
What other potential memes should we possibly expect to see made a reality?
Maybe a dating show about men in relationships being distracted by attractive people in the street?
Or how good an arsonist is your daughter?
What about an entire show dedicated to stuff Drake does and doesn’t like?
But perhaps the biggest crime of all is that they didn’t name the show The Great British Fake Off.
All episodes of Is It Cake? arrive on Netflix on Friday, 18 March.
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